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Saturday, January 13, 2007

KT's Best of 2006 (etc.)

I guess technically, that should read "Best of (etc.) 2006": some bests, some worsts, some miscellaneous mentions of note. Unlike Rebecca's post, you won't get to vote on the nominees. Fortunately, none of you seemed to want to do that anyhow. Without further ado, the highlights and lowlights of my past year:

Best Places Visited: American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore; Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Balboa Park in San Diego (All special in their own special ways.)

Least Favorite Form Of Pestilence To Be Afflicted By: Three-way tie between ants, cockroaches, and Richard's mysterious hives.

Runner-Up: Fleas (Those were so 2005.)

Worst Social Event: Staff holiday party (One of those unfortunate circumstances in which six people with completely different social chemistry get together and the entire evening bombs. I'm pretty sure Richard is still mourning the loss of those three hours of his life.)

Best Movies: "Brokeback Mountain," "Little Miss Sunshine," "The Departed" (I undoubtedly saw other movies, perhaps even ones I liked better, but I can only think of five movies I saw in the theater in 2006, so these are the winners. Sorry, "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Superman.")

Worst Job: Babysitting on Sunday mornings at the church in Round Rock (I just got my W-2 from them and all the memories came rushing back. At least I only stayed long enough to earn $410...)

Books You Shouldn't Touch With A Ten-Foot Pole:Plenty Good Room by Cheri Edwards (I was going to re-direct you to my Amazon customer review of said book, in which I gave it one star and discussed its many shortcomings at great length, but it seems to have been deleted {!!!!!!!!!!!!!!}. Can they actually legally DO that?)

Okay, those are all the bests and worsts I can think of at the moment. I'll add more if I think of anything...